Google for WineHQ. Once there, click on the tab along the top labeled "AppDB" which is the Wine app database where you can do a search for any game and very many will turn up including this one. It is always good to check here for any known issues and workarounds. I do this whenever I port something before I even start since odds are somebody else has already run into whatever issues may exist and fixed them or noted bugs in Wine or whatever. Hopefully you will find something helpful there.

The only other thing I can think of is to check system requirements in Windows but then give consideration to the fact they are probably higher most of the time in OS X with Wine by some degree. As suggested above, reducing settings might help eliminate the crashing. I've often found that helpful just in general with games.

Just as a general rule and depending on what the game offers for settings I'd be looking for stuff like AA and shadows as ones that tax the GPU. It seems like more often than not if a settings change is going to help at least in my own experience, turning off AA and reducing resolution are the big ones for crashing issues. I'd try turning off AA first, then reducing resolution only if other eye candy reductions were not helping.

William Browne

Additional CommentsThe game doesn't like 64-bit wine prefixes - install it in a 32-bit prefix.

If you get a black screen at game startup, add the following to $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/users//Local Settings/Application Data/Gas Powered Games/SupremeCommander/Game.prefs inside 'options_overrides section':

bloom_render = { default = 0}

If game rendering seems to get stuck on the first frame, set the 'fidelity' setting to medium or lower.

If you get a black screen at game startup, add the following to $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/users//Local Settings/Application Data/Gas Powered Games/SupremeCommander/Game.prefs inside 'options_overrides section':

bloom_render = { default = 0}

If game rendering seems to get stuck on the first frame, set the 'fidelity' setting to medium or lower.

Hi, first time using porting-kit and I am having some trouble. I have followed instructions as best I can, including the notes for Supreme Commander:

"Notes:After installation Launch the game once, where you will notice black screen with blue cursor. Then end the game by doing “cmd + alt + esc”. Then go to you application folder and right-cicl the Supreme Commander Wrapper —> show package content —> navigate to: drive_c/users/Wineskin/Local Settings/Application Data/Gas Powered Games/SupremeCommander, and there replace the text of the game.prefs with this one. Now launch the game again and black screen should be fixed."

I launched the game, encountered the black screen, and eventually the blue cursor, with sound. But for the life of me I cannot locate the folder detailed in the notes above to change the game.prefs. When i reach drive_c/users/Wineskin/Local Settings/Application Data/ there is only one folder; Windows. There is no folder called GasPoweredGames. I have tried revealing hidden folders using Terminal, and no amount of searching can find it. Is there a reason why this folder may not be found?

There is only one requirement to see the folder, and thats that you started the game once. Then the folder should be have created. What I can amagine, is that you forgot to go to the “Local settings” folder, because in the wineskin folder there is also an “Application folder” which only contains the folder “Microsoft”. So check carefully the path.

I had not found the "Games" folder in applications. This isn't specified in the notes for the game in PortingKit, but was in your post above. I replaced the .prefs file with the one in the notes and the game starts fine.